Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull using tape drives

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/7/2011 7:02 PM, penne...@sapo.pt wrote: > > > Citando Jim Barber: > >> Yes I am. >> I am using a TL2000 tape library with two drives. >> The technique can't work if you only have one tape drive. >>I'm taking incremental backups Mon-Fri. >> Then after the increment

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

2011-01-08 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
-Messaggio originale- Da: penne...@sapo.pt Inviata: Sab, 08 Gennaio 2011 01:22:46 > i have the same problem and i could not find a satisfactory solution. > > so i tried to use a virtual autocharger but bacula support is buggy: > > see the thread "virtualfull using tapes" or my previous po

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/8/2011 4:46 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 07/01/2011 14:53, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: >> On 07/01/11, Oliver Hoffmann (o...@dom.de) wrote: >>> I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. >>> bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/7/2011 9:48 AM, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. > bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of > 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection. > > For testing purpose I connected one

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.3 packages for Ubuntu 10.10 server

2011-01-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have created bacula 5.0.3 deb packages in Ubuntu 10.10 64bit machine and installed it. When I tried running bconsole it never connects to the director. I have tried the same configuration in Ubuntu supplied Bacula 5.0.2 and it works fine there. To create the deb packages I have downloaded the

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull using tape drives

2011-01-08 Thread Jesper Krogh
On 2011-01-06 23:00, James Harper wrote: >> Hi >> >> Anyone doing VirtualFull backups using tapedrives only? >> Can they shortly describe their setup? pro/con/etc? >> > I'm not, but can tell you it's probably not a good idea - you'd end up > with extra wear and tear on your tape drives, as well as

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/7/2011 3:03 PM, Mike Ruskai wrote: > Right now, I'm backing up to a drive array with one concurrent job. I'd > like to increase that, and really need to for a new backup environment > I'm creating soon. > > With the single concurrent job, getting a consistent catalog backup is > trivial - I j

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Extremly slow backup

2011-01-08 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> Both full and differential backup run with same speed. Going through > filesystem shouldn't affect backup speed. Rsync (which I used for > testing) is doing pretty much same job - compares checksum of each and > every file and transfers it if its different. Its 50 times faster than > Bacula doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Extremly slow backup

2011-01-08 Thread Marcin Krol
> Are you talking about a full backup or some other level? If it is not > a full backup > you will get low speed because bacula only is backing up the changed files > and it takes a long time to go through a filesystem with many thousands of > files > to find out what files have changed. Both ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Partition information and boot records

2011-01-08 Thread John Drescher
> Can bacula store this information? I'm thinking of how to do recoveries, > and I'm wondering how i'd restore to bare metal, if i didn't have > partition info, and the mbr to hand seperatly from the backup? > > Any thoughts? > sfdisk can store the partition info this. dd can create a backup of th

[Bacula-users] Recovering windows 2003 systems

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
I intend to recover my systems using a linux based live CD with bacula on it. But on further inspection there is some note in the documentation of some limitations to doing a bare metal restore on windows based systems. Are there any points new users need to be aware of when it comes to bare me

[Bacula-users] Partition information and boot records

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
Can bacula store this information? I'm thinking of how to do recoveries, and I'm wondering how i'd restore to bare metal, if i didn't have partition info, and the mbr to hand seperatly from the backup? Any thoughts? --

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on max Storage jobs although I set Max concurrent job to 10

2011-01-08 Thread Silver Salonen
On Saturday 08 January 2011 14:07:01 Hugo Letemplier wrote: > Le 6 janv. 2011 à 21:17, Silver Salonen a écrit : > > > On Thursday 06 January 2011 22:14:16 John Drescher wrote: > >>> Only one job can run on the same device. If you want another job to run > >>> into the save folder, you have to clo

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on max Storage jobs although I set Max concurrent job to 10

2011-01-08 Thread Hugo Letemplier
So I will need to create many pools ? But of I use one pool for many Jobs so I will need to create many devices ? Hugo Le 6 janv. 2011 à 21:17, Silver Salonen a écrit : > On Thursday 06 January 2011 22:14:16 John Drescher wrote: >>> Only one job can run on the same device. If you want another jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

2011-01-08 Thread Silver Salonen
On Saturday 08 January 2011 11:46:11 Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 07/01/2011 14:53, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > On 07/01/11, Oliver Hoffmann (o...@dom.de) wrote: > >> I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. > >> bacula does one job after the other and I have a max.

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 14:53, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 07/01/11, Oliver Hoffmann (o...@dom.de) wrote: >> I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. >> bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of >> 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit conne